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Efficacy of Nesidiocoris tenuis (Hemiptera: Miridae) and Bacillus thuringiensis (Berliner) for controlling Tuta absoluta (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) in greenhouse tomato crops under Kuwait hot desert climate

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